My Daily Banana

 

 

 

Picture of the Day:

The phot is nine years old,
aren't they all young looking?

 

 

Event of the Day:

27th June 1969

Stonewall Gay Bar, Christopher Street, New York riots. It was the beginning of a new era, the gays had their "coming out" and since then every year this riot is commemorated all around the world with the Christopher Street Day March: an extremely shrill, colourful and happy event. I once happened to be in Berlin on the same day and went with Lynda to watch and enjoy the march; it was well worth watching so many beautiful people and creeps.

 

I took the photo in Berlin
 it was the CSD march 2005
Proud and beautiful but which gender?

 

 

Died on this Day:

27th June 2002

John Entwistle

The bass player from the Who and the only one with a formal musical training. The rest were self taught musicians.

Birthday of the Day:

27th June 1880

Helen Keller

The Who would say "That deaf, dumb and blind kid".

She was born with sight and hearing but lost both due to illness at nineteen months. It took many years before she learned to communicate with the world but when she learned how to nothing could stop her; she was the first deaf blind person to earn a Bachelor of Art degree.

Thoughts:

Now I have at least two hours to wait, it's my quarter yearly checkup at the oncology. Let's see what thoughts are with me and if I can bring them to paper.

Happy news, Meagan answered me on Facebook, she's starting her work in just over a month, I wish her all the luck she needs. It's an exciting time starting in a new job, enjoy it Meagan.

Only nine sat before me in the waiting room, my appointment was or is at nine o'clock it's now five past nine, I wonder?

Yesterday was my first day back at work after my intensive holidays; I felt way out of place and the work had piled up (can't I go back on holiday? I don't like stress!) It wouldn't bother me if I could work at my own time, but no luck the first two drawings (the engineer says, "Easy drawings, not much to them") have to be delivered today, at least six hours of work and I'm sat here for the next two to three hours. I'll have to get an extension and deliver them on Monday. Why am I complaining? I earn my living being a slave and after my holidays I need it.

Otherwise the day worked out well, I managed to clock up five hours with the work that had to be finished immediately, that brings my earnings up to the minimum this month. Not bad if you calculate my loss not being in the firm for ten days.

Oh dear! I'm falling into the complaining rut, I'd better get out of it quickly, I want a happy blog not a sniveling one.

Did I write about my stroll through Lincoln? If yes, hold out I'll try writing about a different part of it. Let's see the Brayford, which is a marina now. Back in the sixties, seventies it was a deep dark puddle which was still being used as an industrial route and harbour, the Hovis mills were situated on the north-east bank. I sat down on the outside terrace of the Royal William pub, it has tables on the bank of the Brayford and enjoyed a fresh cup of cappuccino. One of the best cups that I have drunk during my holidays, the worst was in Harwich (poor town I'm getting on at it again), there the cappuccino was made of instant coffee and that is terrible, baah! I then went for a walk around the lake; there is a pathway, that's new.

 The west side of the Brayford is now occupied by the Lincoln University, also new in Lincoln (well new for me), in the past there was only colleges in Lincoln, the Art College, the Bishop Grosseteste College a teachers training college and the Technical College. In the early sixties a film was made in Lincoln about a university in the castle area; does anyone remember that? I'll have to get on Google maybe I can find the film and link it.

I found the it The Wind and the Willing shot in 1962; it portraits student life in the early sixties and was filmed in and around Lincoln showing fictional pubs around the castle and cathedral, the fictional university was the Bishop Grosseteste College.

Back to my stroll: all around the Brayford there are information plaques; here I learned quite a bit about the history of the lake. The information goes back to the Roman times when Lincoln was a prospering Roman city. See the photos that I took of the plaques, they make interesting reading.

It's ten o'clock and there are only six patients in front of me, won't be long now maybe I should go for a cup of coffee wile I wait?

I'm out; it only took me two and a half hours, that wasn't too bad I had enough time for my blog.

Happy reading!!

 

Some pictures of the Brayford in Lincoln

 

First a little information which isn't rymed together from me.

The Royal William
a pub that had the fortune of being situated next to a tourist attraction.
The inside of the pub is nice too.

Hotels and offices where the Hovis Mill once stood



A barge that is still being used commercially

The whole Brayford
on the south side (left) the Sea Scouts, hotels, restaurants and pubs
on the north side (right) the marina and the üniversity

The ugly road bridge and the ugly universary

Picturesque the barges

The Cathedral towers over Lincoln
In the front an old roof (well oldish) it was part of a auto showroom and garage,
because of its unique form the roof was listed.

The mother swan with her cygnets
the male swan attacked me, because I got too close to them.

The blog is a little later today; I didn't feel up to it last evening so I watched football on telly.

See you all tomorrow xxx